On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:36:22PM -0500, ろ〇〇〇〇 ろ〇〇〇 wrote:
> 3. I wrote a couple of trivial, though lengthy, JavaScript programs using
> Unicode codepoints. I wonder: Would a Japanese system interpret the
> backslashes in the program (as in "\uFFFF" or whatever) as yen signs, thus
> stopping the program from working properly?
Part of the problem with the backslash/yen confusion is that it will
interpret 0x5C with backslash semantics, meaning that you can't recode
Japanese text with that problem automatically, as sometimes 0x5C means
backslash and sometimes it means yen. (The problem is with Windows and
some Unix systems. Linux and, I believe, the Mac OS are immune to the
problem except when dealing with text coming from Windows or those Unix
systems with the problem.) So, no, it wouldn't.
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